Healdsburg Jazz Festival Finale: Poncho Sanchez & Claudia Villela at Rodney Strong Vineyards

The Festival Finale at the famed Rodney Strong Vineyard stage: Latin jazz stars Poncho Sanchez and Claudia Villela, supply grooves for dancing and grist for the imagination at Rodney Strong Vineyards. Opening the show, Rio de Janeiro-raised Villela is set to mesmerize the crowd with the haunting vocals and powerful piano playing that have made her a top attraction of Brazilian music, bolstered by the stunning and complex guitar playing of her longtime companion, guitarist, Ricardo Peixoto and the versatile percussion of Brian Rice who is a master of an entire range of Latin instruments including the pandeiro, a hand drum critical to the music of Brazil...

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The Festival Finale at the famed Rodney Strong Vineyard stage: Latin jazz stars Poncho Sanchez and Claudia Villela, supply grooves for dancing and grist for the imagination at Rodney Strong Vineyards. Opening the show, Rio de Janeiro-raised Villela is set to mesmerize the crowd with the haunting vocals and powerful piano playing that have made her a top attraction of Brazilian music, bolstered by the stunning and complex guitar playing of her longtime companion, guitarist, Ricardo Peixoto and the versatile percussion of Brian Rice who is a master of an entire range of Latin instruments including the pandeiro, a hand drum critical to the music of Brazil. Anyone mesmerized by the end of Villela

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